[Electronics-talk] follow-Up to my Last Message

[Frida Aizenman]

You said, "One thing I had to do once is call my friend on skype, then bring 
my
Iphone to the laundry and show her the machine."I love it!
 Frida
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From: "Kaye" <kayezimpher at comcast.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 4:34 PM
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>I also live in a building that only has card operated laundry machines. I 
>have a friend come by every now and then to assist me, when money needs to 
>be added but when she is not around the building staff has been nice about 
>it. One thing I had to do once is call my friend on skype, then bring my 
>Iphone to the laundry and show her the machine. She was able to walk me 
>through the steps of adding the funds myself. It was probably funny to any 
>passers by, but I got it done. I have been fortunate though that my 
>machines do have buttons so I can do my own laundry. I am about to move to 
>a place where I will have my own washer and dryer. I am thinking of renting 
>a set, but I know I need to be careful that they don't send me a set that 
>is flat screened.
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Drew Hunthausen
> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 6:53 PM
> To: 'Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances'
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] follow-Up to my Last Message
>
> Gerald,
> I previously lived in an apartment complex with the same type of card
> operated laundry machines. What I did was have the apartment manager put
> more money on my card each month when I paid my rent. Just a suggestion to
> more easily get around this inconvenience.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Gerald Levy
> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 2:15 PM
> To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] follow-Up to my Last Message
>
>
> You're lucky that you can buy your own washer/dryer.  The new Maytag
> commercial washers and dryers in the laundry room of my apartment complex
> are pretty much inaccessible without sighted help because they have flat
> membrane touchpad controls that cannot be modified in any way.  Plus, they
> now use a card-based system instead of coins to activate them.  Of course,
> the vending machine that is used to add value to the card is totally
> inaccessible because the display has no speech output.  I even asked my
> building manager whether the company that makes the card vending machine
> offered a more accessible model with speech output or some other form of
> audible confirmation so that a blind person could independently verify the
> amount on the card.  He just laughed.  So I now always need sighted help 
> to
> do my laundry.  In the good old days when the machines had mechanical 
> knobs
> and buttons and accepted quarters, I could do the laundry myself.
>
> Gerald
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Chao" <mattchao at verizon.net>
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 4:52 PM
> Subject: [Electronics-talk] follow-Up to my Last Message
>
>
>> Hi, Again, Folks.  Forgot to say that I was able to try out the washer in
>> the store.  They were able to plug it into a standard outlet using an
>> extension cord, so I got to see (rather hear) for myself.--Matthew Chao
>>
>> e
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